Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series 1959
11th Primetime Emmy Awards · held May 6, 1959 · 10 nominees
- Winner Ken Hughes · Eddie from Alcoa Theatre
- Winner James Costigan · Little Moon of Alban
- Nominee Rod Serling · A Town Has Turned to Dust from Playhouse 90
- Nominee Irving G. Neiman · Child of Our Time from Playhouse 90
- Nominee J.P. Miller · Days of Wine and Roses from Playhouse 90
- Nominee Roald Dahl · Lamb to the Slaughter from Alfred Hitchcock Presents
- Nominee Horton Foote · Old Man from Playhouse 90
- Nominee Samuel A. Taylor · One Is a Wanderer from General Electric Theater
- Nominee Blake Edwards · The Kill from Peter Gunn
- Nominee Christopher Knopf · The Loudmouth from Alcoa Theatre
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